Hi Kevin,

Can you please share what kinds of broadcast/multicast traffic you usually see 
? (That is not ARP or DHCP) 

Thanks,
Gal

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‫ב-13 בינו׳ 2016, בשעה 21:14, ‏‏Kevin Benton ‏<[email protected]> כתב/ה:‬

> >Assuming I understood your statement correctly, with OVN, only one broadcast 
> >packet goes in the tunnel and then it gets replicated in the hypervisor. So 
> >the load is on the CPU instead of the network.
> 
> Not quite. What I'm referring to is when you have an overlay that spans 
> multiple compute nodes. When a broadcast packet needs to be sent to all VMs 
> in a network, it needs to be duplicated by the sending hypervisor onto a 
> tunnel to every other compute node with a VM in the network.
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Guru Shetty <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 January 2016 at 11:06, Kevin Benton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I looked through the list and see that someone already asked about 
>>> multicast addresses as a target for VXLAN tunnels[1]. Since it's not 
>>> supported, what is the suggestion to prevent broadcast/multicast traffic in 
>>> a tenant's network from wiping out the network due to the duplication cost?
>>> 
>>> This is something the current OVS plugin for Neutron in OpenStack suffers 
>>> from and it seems OVN will have the same issue as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> Assuming I understood your statement correctly, with OVN, only one broadcast 
>> packet goes in the tunnel and then it gets replicated in the hypervisor. So 
>> the load is on the CPU instead of the network.
>>  
>>> 
>>> For example, without severely rate-limiting or completely blocking 
>>> broadcast/multicast, a tenant network with 100 VMs on it can max out a 10 
>>> Gbps interface adapter with a 100 mbps broadcast/multicast stream.
>>> 
>>> 1. http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-December/019632.html
>>> 
>>> Cheers
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